[Mycolleagues] Call for Book Chapter Proposals: Quality of Service Architectures for Wireless Networks - Performance Metrics and Management

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We invite you to send a proposal for the following book chapter title:

 

Quality of Service Architectures for Wireless Networks:

Performance Metrics and Management

 

Editors-in-Chief:
 

Adibi, Sasan – University of Waterloo, Canada

Jain, Raj – George Washington University, USA 

 

Introduction:

 

Quality of Service (QoS) intends to provide different priorities to different users or data flows and to guarantee a certain level of performance to a data flow in accordance with requests from the application program or the internet service provider policy. Quality of Service guarantees are important if the network capacity is limited, particularly in cellular data networks. This book intends to present a comprehensive collection of QoS mechanisms for various access technologies and to introduce existing and traditional approaches to traffic management for wireless technologies. The chapters of this book may address the following topics:

·         Detailed requirements to implement Quality of Service (QoS) and methods for implementing and managing QoS

·         Identification and description of different models used for ensuring QoS in a network and explanation of  key IP QoS mechanisms used to implement the models

·         Explanation of the static (legacy) QoS provisioning

·         Requirements for dynamic QoS implementations (Push, Pull, and Hybrid models). 

·         Explanations of current wireless network QoS provisioning schemes (i.e., IEEE 802.11e, IEEE 802.16, LTE, HSDPA, etc)

·         Implementations for QoS queuing mechanisms to manage network congestion

·         Implementations for QoS congestion avoidance mechanisms to reduce the effects of congestion on the network

·         Implementations for QoS traffic policing and traffic shaping mechanisms to effectively limit the rate of network traffic

·         Link efficiency mechanism Implementations to improve link's bandwidth efficiency.

 

Scope:

 

The book; Quality of Service Architectures for Wireless Networks: Performance Metrics and Management, plans to present the current, state of the art research and practices on quality of service (QoS) schemes for wireless networks The proposals may include, but are not limited to, the following areas of interest:

 

·         Legacy QoS Systems (IntServ, DiffServ, RSVP, ATM, etc)

·         Wireless QoS versus Wired QoS

·         QoS Architecture

·         Application Classes

·         QoS Parameters and Performance Metrics; Latency, Loss, Jitter, etc

·         QoS Provisioning for Throughput and Bandwidth

·         Layered QoS Schemes

o        Physical Layer QoS

o        MAC Layer QoS

o        Network Layer QoS

o        Transport Layer QoS

o        Application Layer QoS

·         Push, Pull, and Hybrid Schemes

·         Security and QoS coexistence

·         IEEE 802.11-based QoS Schemes; IEEE 802.11e, etc

·         IEEE 802.16-based QoS Schemes

·         QoS in Scheduling

·         QoS in Admission Control

·         QoS and Handover issues

·         QoS in Crosslayer Design

·         QoS and Energy Constraints

·         QoS and Simulation Techniques

·         3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project) and 3GPP2 QoS Schemes

·         QoS in LTE (Long Term Evolution) Systems

·         QoS in IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem)

·         QoS in Mobile Networks (3G, etc)

·         QoS in HSPDA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access), HSUPA (High-Speed Uplink Packet Access), and  HSOPA (High Speed OFDM Packet Access) Systems

·         QoS for Mobile TV

·         QoS Standards, Frameworks, and Policies

·         QoS in Ad-Hoc Networks

·         Mobile ETE QoS in Multi-Radio Environment

·         Dynamic QoS implications in the Next Generation Mobile IP Networks

·         Characteristics of Smart Mobile devices in support of ETE QoS

·         QoE (Quality of Experience) versus QoS

·         Study of QoS practices for Femto Cells

 

Target Audience:

 

·         Electrical and Computer Engineering Students and Faculty Members

·         Computer Science Students/Faculty Members

·         R & D Divisions of High Technology Firms

·         Operators and Carriers for Mobile Systems  

 

Manuscript Submission:

 

Prospective authors are invited to submit a 1-2 page proposal with the following information:

·         Chapter proposal title

·         Authors' titles, affiliations, and contact information

·         Chapter proposal abstract

·         Tentative chapter proposal list of contents

·         List a few references 

 

Please note that only original and previously unpublished manuscripts will be considered. Please send your proposals to both sadibiengmail.uwaterloo.ca and igi-globalinbox.com.

 

Deadlines:

 

·         Proposal Submission Deadline:                October 3^rd, 2008

·         Proposal Acceptance Notification:            October 31^st, 2008

·         Expected Publication:                               Second Quarter, 2009 

 

All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (publisher of the Information Science Reference, formerly Idea Group Reference, and Medical Information Science Reference imprints). For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit http://www.igi-global.com.

 

Please refer to the related webpage for any current updates: http://shannon2.uwaterloo.ca/~amin/QoSbook

Thank you
 
Adibi, S, University of Waterloo
Mobasher, A, Research in Motion (RIM)
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